“My word holds,” she said. "And now," said Thames, (for we must still preserve the name,) "you will no longer defer my happiness. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. No other man should touch her; she was Hoddy's, body and soul, in this life and after. A vast indifference settled down upon him. As soon as dinner was over she went into the kitchen and devoted herself to compiling a tray—not a tray merely of halfcooled dinner things, but a specially prepared “nice” tray, suitable for tempting any one. ’ Hilary’s gaze was raking the room. O'Higgins made it positive; but it required five weeks of broken voyages: with dilapidated hotels, poor food, poor tobacco, and evil-smelling tramps.
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